Volume: 07, Issue: 05 05/13/2009 
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Final Space Shuttle Mission to Hubble Underway

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning the STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo credit: NASA Television  

On Monday, Space shuttle Atlantis launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

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Hubble Photographs Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera

The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2's final "pretty picture" is the planetary nebula known as Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55). Image credit: NASA/ESA/JPL  

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, which was developed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a planetary nebula has been imaged as the camera's final "pretty picture."

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Soft Ground Puts Spirit in Danger Despite Gain in Daily Energy

Wheel slippage during attempts to extricate NASA's Mars Rover Spirit from a patch of soft ground during the preceding two weeks had partially buried the wheels by the 1,899th Martian day, or sol, of the Spirit's mission on Mars (May 6, 2009). Image credit  

The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.

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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career

An infrared view of the Helix Nebula from Spitzer. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech  

The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is expected to run out of the liquid helium needed to chill some of its instruments to operating temperatures.

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Chat with Former Astronaut Michael Bloomfield

Michael Bloomfield - Image Credit: NASA  

Space Explorers, Inc. would like to announce an online chat event with Michael Bloomfield, Vice President, Constellation Systems, Strategy and Business Development, at ATK and former NASA astronaut.

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Planetary Times Summer Hiatus

Photo courtesy NASA / JPL.  

Space Explorers is pleased to bring you the final Planetary Times of the 2008-09 school year. We look forward to bringing you future editions this fall.

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